Taken a little after 6 a.m. today.
Category: Photography
Reaching for the sky
North Church, Portsmouth, N.H., taken late Tuesday afternoon.
Red at night
Amazing sky on the North Shore this evening.
Liberty Enlightening the World
I had a great day taking my daughter to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty on Thursday. Not only had she never been there before, but neither had I. Since time was limited, I wish we hadn’t spent so much of it on the first floor of the Ellis Island exhibit. The good stuff — the photos and the historical artifacts — are upstairs.
Salem Farmers Market
Taken earlier this afternoon. The Salem Farmers Market is in its third year, and is held every Thursday afternoon and evening in Derby Square from June through December. Bethany Bray and Ken Yuszkus covered it for the Salem News on July 6.
Cloudy evening in Essex
Saltmarshes behind J.T. Farnham’s in Essex, Sunday evening.
Town line
At the Ipswich-Topsfield line between Bradley Palmer State Park and Willowdale State Forest. The road it’s on is called Ipswich Road in Topsfield and Topsfield Road in Ipswich.
Sunset over the North Shore
Taken at the Salem Willows earlier this evening.
Running along the Salem Beverly Waterway Canal
I charted a great new five-mile running route yesterday — along the Salem Beverly Waterway Canal, over to the Topsfield Rail Trail, up to the Topsfield Fairgrounds and back. I took this photo at the beginning (end?) of the canal, in Wenham, just off Cherry Street.
According to this Wikipedia article, the canal was built in 1917 and “was never used to transport anything but water and recreational canoeists.” I’d hiked along it a few times with scouts, but had never gone from one end to the other until yesterday. A great North Shore resource.
And despite its name, no part of it lies in either Salem or Beverly — it runs southeast to northwest from Wenham to Topsfield.
Out and about in Providence
On Federal Hill last Thursday with Esther of Gratuitous Violins.